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Restaurant's second location helps revitalize neighborhood

In a town famous for great seafood, Deanie’s Seafood is in a class by itself. Deanie’s is a “scratch house,” meaning everything is made in-house with the best ingredients available.After taking ownership of the original Deanie’s restaurant and seafood market in 1982 with her late husband Frank, Deanie’s proprietor Barbara “Mrs. Barbara” Chifici opened the second Deanie’s restaurant in 2001 at the corner of Iberville and Dauphine streets in the French Quarter.

Now in its 18th year, Deanie’s Seafood in the French Quarter is a a draw for both locals and tourists. It has become a destination restaurant whose popularity rivals stalwarts of the Quarter including Brennan’s, Arnaud’s, Galatoire’s and Acme Oyster House. The restaurant is managed by son Keith Chifici.

NODS FOR New Orleans best seafood, besT for boiled seafood

Deanie’s Seafood Restaurants is grateful to its loyal customers for continuing our legacy of accolades representing Deanie’s commitment for delivering locally sourced Wild Louisiana seafood with our signature housemade recipes. This year, Deanie’s has earned top seafood restaurant awards from Gambit’s “Best of New Orleans,” Where Y’at Magazine’s “Best of the Big Easy,” and New Orleans Magazine’s “Tops of the Town” awards.

'Best of the Big Easy' recognizes Deanie’s in top 3 Seafood Restaurants, Places for Boiled Seafood

Gambit, a New Orleans news, politics, food and entertainment weekly, has recognized Deanie’s Seafood Restaurants with two top honors in their annual “
Best of New Orleans” readers" poll. Deanie’s was voted in the top 3 among Best Seafood Restaurants (No. 3) for the sixth consecutive year, and among Best Places for Boiled Seafood (No. 2) for the third consecutive year in the 2018 readers’ survey, published Aug. 28. The 2018 "Best of the Big Easy Awards" marks the 18th-consecutive year Deanie's
Seafood Restaurants has been honored in the "Best of New Orleans" readers' poll in nine categories, including Best Place for Boiled Seafood, Best Oyster Po-Boy and Best BBQ Shrimp.

Deanie’s Seafood Restaurants were recognized with three top honors in New Orleans Where Y’at Magazine’s “Best of the Big Easy 2018” Awards. Among the honors, Deanie’s ranked No.1 as Best Seafood Restaurant in New Orleans for the second-consecutive year; the fifth time it has been selected by Where Y’at readers among the top three seafood restaurants in New Orleans. Deanie’s also was chosen as the No. 2 Best Restaurant for Boiled Seafood in the annual readers' survey.

Deanie’s earns three No. 1 best seafood rankings

Deanie’s Seafood Restaurants have earned THREE No. 1 best seafood rankings in this year’s Tops of the Town 2017 readers’ survey awards fromNew Orleans Magazine. Deanie’s was crowned the Top Place for Seafood, Top Place for Raw Oysters and Top Place for Boiled Crawfish in New Orleans in this year’s survey.

In a city that is ranked in the top 100 for “Best Food Destinations of 2017,” locally owned Deanie’s Seafood strives to provide an unforgettable dining experience for our patrons.

Committed to serving best seafood in New Orleans

Hard work, dedication, and years of fine tuning recipes are rewarded with customer loyalty! This past April, the Chifici family celebrated their 35th anniversary as owners/operators of Deanie's Seafood Restaurant in Bucktown, with Deanie’s Seafood in the French Quarter now in its 16th year of operations. Over the past few decades, we have strived to deliver a truly authentic dining experience for our patrons. Once again, NOLA has selected Deanie's as New Orleans’ Best Seafood Restaurants! Deanie’s Seafood is proud to share our cultivated and treasured family recipes with our customers, who keep coming back year after year.

Deanie's Ranks in Where Y'at's Best Seafood Restaurant, Best Restaurant for Boiled Seafood categories

NEW ORLEANS--Deanie’s Seafood has been recognized among the best New Orleans restaurants in a local readers survey by Where Y’at Magazine. Respondents participating in Where Y'at’s “Best of the Big Easy” ranked Deanie’s No. 2 Best Seafood Restaurant in New Orleans and No. 1 Best Restaurant for Boiled Seafood.

Free Crawfish Festival features live music all day

Deanie's Seafood will host its eighth-annual Pinch A Palooza Festival, a free crawfish festival celebrating Louisiana music and crawfish, on Sunday April 23 at Deanie’s Seafood Restaurant & Seafood Market in Bucktown! Celebrating Louisiana Crawfish Month during the peak of New Orleans music festival season, Pinch A Palooza will feature more than 5,000 lbs. of boiled crawfish, a crawfish-eating contest for adults as well as one for children ages 6-12, crafts and games for the kids, and live music all day long. New Orleans all-male charitable dance troupe The 610 Stompers will also be warming up the crowd with their spectacular dance moves. With seven bands beginning at 11am, and popular local funk band Flow Tribe closing out the night, this crawfish festival features music and entertainment for all ages!

accolades INCLUDE NEW ORLEANS' BEST SEAFOOD RESTAURANT

In a city with more than 1,400 restaurants,Deanie’s Seafood Restaurant works hard to deliver a truly authentic dining experience. As a locally owned business known for serving the best seafood in New Orleans, we’ve cultivated and fine tuned our family recipes for the past 55 years.

Deanie’s is a powerhouse in fresh-from-the-Gulf seafood offerings, and all our dishes are made from scratch using the highest quality ingredients. Whether our customers are celebrating a special occasion, enjoying a weekday meal with friends or family, or visitors looking for the best seafood around, every day we strive to be New Orleans’ Best Seafood Restaurant! Here is a roundup of this past year’s accolades:

New Orleans' Best Seafood Restaurant celebrates seafood month

October marks National Seafood Month, and in Louisiana, we’re serious about our seafood! So, you can say, National Seafood Month is a holiday that is surely celebrated. There are multiple seafood restaurants all around Louisiana that claim to have the best & freshest seafood that you’ll ever taste. This isn’t always true, but in Deanie’s case it’s true.

Deanie’s Seafood Restaurants & Seafood Market have been serving up some of the best boiled, broiled, and fried Louisiana seafood for more than 50 years. Not only does Deanie’s Seafood Restaurant prepare their own signature seasonings, but they also pride themselves on having the freshest Gulf Seafood available.